The Jewish calendar, as it now exists, is based on astronomical
principles. It differs from the ordinary calendar because its unit is the
month, not the year. It takes the moon 29 ½ days to circle the earth. As
the calendar month must have an integral number of days, some Jewish months
have 29 days and some 30.

Twelve lunar months compose a year and comprise altogether 354
days. The solar year or the time it takes the earth to make one revolution
about the sun, is 365 ¼ days, or roughly 11 days more. In order to
harmonize the lunar and solar years a thirteenth month, called Second Adar,
is added in the Jewish calendar seven times in 19 years, i.e., on the 3rd,
6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th. Each of these years is a leap year.

The Jews had two New Years, the Civil, in
Ethanim or Tisrj (October) and the
Sacred, in Abib or Nisan (April), the month in
which they left Egypt under Moses.

The following table gives the months in order, beginning with the
Sacred New Year. The numbers in parentheses are those of the months
according to the civil reckoning; and the modern names given are
approximately the corresponding months according to our calendar. The exact
period in modern terms differs each year.

April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
January
February
March

Names of
the Months and of the Days of the Week

The practice of naming the days of the week is derived from
Egyptian astronomy. It did not become firmly established in our
civilization until the times of the Theodosius at the end of the fourth
century A.D. Curiously enough, it was the Roman custom of lettering the
successive days of nundinum (a period of eight
days) which gave rise to the modern custom in some churches whereby the
dominical letter is determined. The days of the week are lettered from A to
G just as the Romans lettered the days of a nundinum
from A to H.

According to Egyptian astronomers the sun and the moon were
planets and the order of the planets in terms of the distance from earth was
as follows: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury,
Moon. One hour of each day, beginning with the first, was
consecrated to each of these “planets”. The whole day was consecrated to
the planet to which belonged the first hour. If the first is consecrated to
the Sun, to which belongs the first hour, then the first hour of the next
day will belong to the Moon and the day will be the moon’s day, and so on
until, after the cycle has been completed, the first hour of the eighth day
will belong to the sun again.

Our names of the days of the week are derived from Anglo-Saxon
names and these in turn are named for the Saxon gods which correspond to the
Roman gods for whom the days were named. The Roman names, of course, have
survived in Spanish, French, Italian, and other languages.

The days of Mars was called the day of Tiw,
the god of war.

The day of Mercury was called the day of
Woden, chief of the gods, whose attributes corresponded more nearly
to those of the Roman Mercury than of Jupiter.

The day of Jupiter was called the day of Thor, the god of Thunder.

The day of Venus was call the day of Frigg, queen of the gods.

The seventh day is still called the day of Saturn, the
sower of seed.

THE
CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST has great apprehension of using pagan names
of months and days.

We suffer this burden while we are in the world, but are
constantly reminded that we are not of the world. Yet we tolerate these
nomenclatures merely as tools of communications with the outside world.

We would strongly urge the saints of God against conforming to the
use of honoring idols, by calling the names of the days and moths after
these pagan deities, and be transforming to the more real concept of the
First day, Second day, etc. and apply this method also to the months.

JANUARY was named from Janus, an old Roman god.

FEBRUARY was named from the Februs,
the expiatory ceremonies which the Romans held in honor of the dead of this
month.

MARCH was named from the Roman god Mars who, at the time of the
naming of the month, was primarily a god of Agriculture; the symbol of
spring-time and of youth. It was only after the artificial identification
of Roman gods with Greek gods took place the Mars became the god of war, the
counterpart of Ares.

APRIL is derived from the same root as the Latin
aperire which means “to open.” Thus April is
the month of the opening buds and flowers.

MAY is of uncertain origins.

JUNE may have been name from the Roman goddess Juno, or from Latin
junior “younger.”

JULY, originally Quinctilis, was
renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month.

AUGUST, originally Sextilis, was
renamed from the honorary title of the Roman Emperor Augustus, who was born
in that month.

The Ministers
of Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the Apostolic
Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of some or all of the
listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge the Christian calendar and
that the Christian life is subject to the civil calendar of events.

The
Ministers of Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the
Apostolic Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of some or
all of the listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge the Christian
calendar and that the Christian life is subject to the civil calendar of events.

The Ministers of
Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the
Apostolic Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of
some or all of the listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge
the Christian calendar and that the Christian life is subject to the
civil calendar of events.

The Ministers of
Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the
Apostolic Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of
some or all of the listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge
the Christian calendar and that the Christian life is subject to the
civil calendar of events.

The Ministers of
Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the
Apostolic Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of
some or all of the listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge
the Christian calendar and that the Christian life is subject to the
civil calendar of events.

The Ministers of
Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the
Apostolic Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of
some or all of the listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge
the Christian calendar and that the Christian life is subject to the
civil calendar of events.

The Ministers of
Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the
Apostolic Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of
some or all of the listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge
the Christian calendar and that the Christian life is subject to the
civil calendar of events.

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The Ministers
of Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the Apostolic
Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of some or all of the
listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge the Christian calendar and
that the Christian life is subject to the civil calendar of events.

The Ministers
of Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the Apostolic
Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of some or all of the
listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge the Christian calendar and
that the Christian life is subject to the civil calendar of events.

The Ministers
of Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the Apostolic
Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of some or all of the
listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge the Christian calendar and
that the Christian life is subject to the civil calendar of events.

The Ministers
of Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the Apostolic
Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of some or all of the
listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge the Christian calendar and
that the Christian life is subject to the civil calendar of events.

The Ministers
of Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Assemblies of the Apostolic
Faith does not necessarily hold the commonly known views of some or all of the
listed Holidays and events. However, we acknowledge the Christian calendar and
that the Christian life is subject to the civil calendar of events.